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Worried there will be a superficial apro-am where some passing reference to human rights rather than deeds, release the prisoners and an easing of these terrible abuses. >> according to records, china is granting passports to chang wan changs mother, how do you see that in. >> its a token sign. its chens nephew who is being tortured and really as a surrogate for, a place-holder for chen himself. because they tortured him for 51 months in prison and then for many months afterwards under house arr...

Michelle, this is the way in which we usually find terrorists. its by establishing connections. networks. pictures. spider webs. of whos talking to whom. youve got to be able to do that. youve also got to prevent future abuses and vendettas. i dont see the safeguards yet being strong enough or well enough explained. >> the "washington post" today quotes a career intelligence officer who provided them with information about the program. the officer said the program was a gross intrusion on privac...

Wondering. despite russ feingolds best efforts, it keeps getting re-authorized. barack obama, who as a candidate ran against the sort of abuses define this kind of policy making now as a president apparently fully bully embraces them. on both sides of the aisle, republicans and democrats spent the majority of the day demanding all the phone records for all of verizons customers or passing it off as no big deal. this kind of suspicious list, spying on americans is the post 9/11 bipartisan governi...

Fraud, for example. or whatever. or, you know, the kind of crimes that may be crimes but are selectively prosecuted and sometimes people do relatively minor things wrong. but then government decides its going to undertake a vendetta against someone it doesnt like, and it happens to have this information already at its disposal because of these advanced surveillance methods. thats the kind of abuse that im worried about. im not of the view that we can just let people, you know, talk to whomever a...

The same civil liberties protections dont apply, of course. theyre not necessarily american citizens or there may be probable cause. this is how we have established a knowledge base on who is a terrorist or who might be a terrorist. its by seeing who talks with whom. who associates with known terrorists. you have to be able to do this in a world of huge amounts of data and huge numbers of potential threats from all sorts of different directions that you cant see coming. so i think of it more in ...

A terrorist so we wanted to see her records. they are preserved and go to a court and get the order. that would normally be the system, but that is not yet clear. were not sure on whether the government that is what it is doing. the questions that are going to be asked in the days to come, did they follow the law? was it appropriate? was it narrow enough and now what restrictions are in place, if any, to protect the data from regular snooping by the feds. >> megyn: also tracking new fallout from...

Collected and wasted, the irs spending culture and conference abuses. because theres never any wasteful spending coming from capitol hill. well discuss, next. oh this is lame, investors could lose tens of thousands of dollars on their 401(k) to hidden fees. is that what youre looking for, like a hidden fee in your giant mom bag? maybe i have them... oh thats right i dont because i rolled my account over to e-trade where... woah. okay...

Protect us take a different col. you saw in the case of the doj, the james rosen investigation those are abuses of power and it is what gives people cause when you talk about things like the nsa program. that is a potential abuse of power and if it were to be abused it would be tremendously invasive and problematic abuse of power. the nsa program at least as it relates to the verizon part of it is operating basically as it was designed. >> chris: but is there a danger of a backlash where legit...

Necessary to block the nomination thats within our power as far as susan vice concerned. >> unfortunately, for them, the powerful post of national security adviser doesnt require senate confirmation. senator mccain reserved his displeasure to a discreet tweet. quote obviously i disagree with potus appointment of susan rice as national security adviser. but ill make every effort to work with her on important issues. but it appears the president is feeling emboldened. consider the security shuffle...

This just smells and i hope this committee gets to the bottom of it. >> i have think the i.r.s. needs to fix its labeling machine, we are the for patriots, not occupy oakland. >> personally i wondered who fights the i.r.s.? what would the repe repercussions be? would there even be a home to win. im a born free american woman, wife, mother and citizen, and im telling my government that youve for 0 gotten your place. jenna: very emotional personal stories yesterday. the i.r.s. is under fire for la...